Former presidential medical adviser clashed with far-right congresswoman when he testified in front of the House Oversight Committee on Monday about the Trump administration’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic

Dr Anthony Fauci has accused Marjorie Taylor Greene of inspiring death threats against him.

The former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases clashed with the Republican firebrand lawmaker at a hearing of the House Oversight Committee on Monday in which he gave testimony about the Trump administration’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

During the hearing, Greene told Fauci he was “not a doctor” and that he “belonged in prison” for “crimes against humanity” amid heated questioning. She also accused him of experimenting on beagles with disease-causing parasites.

“Whenever somebody gets up, whether it’s the news media you know, Fox News does it a lot or it’s somebody in the Congress who gets up and makes a public statement that I’m responsible for the deaths of x number of people because of policies or some crazy idea that I created the virus — immediately — you could like clockwork, the death threats, go way up,” Fauci said during an appearance with Kaitlan Collins on CNN.

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      5 months ago

      He literally didn’t lie, dumb people misunderstood a thing. Go back and look at the post yourself. Don’t just get a second hand opinion of it from a dumb person.

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        I’m not even sure what you’re talking about. I’m talking about all the times he got on television and lied to the public as well as using scare tactics and saying things were based on science when he knew it wasn’t.

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          5 months ago

          Can you list top 5 times he went on the tv and knowingly lied?

          And by list I mean the actual lies he told you, not just times hes appeared on tv.

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        5 months ago

        Proof? Just look it up or watch the hearings they’re having with Fauci. They lied to everyone during covid. Example: staying 6 feet apart from each other was based on science. Turns out that was a lie just like wearing paper mask, etc. It’s not rocket science. Do some research

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          Ah you’re one of those “do your own research” dipshits. That’s not how things work around here. You wanna spout blatant lies you better come with receipts. Show us your sources. If it’s anything with a right lean then this is a non starter because you’re just providing “sources” that have proven time and again to be willfully manufacturing lies to sow division.